Construct URL with 2 variables until condition met

[brwright]

I have a table of four folder IDs that are constructed into a url. 
The URL also takes an offset parameter and maximum of 100 records are returned each call.

example: 

"https://genericurl.com/folders/"+[folderId]+"/assets?sortby=datemodified&sortdir=desc&limit=100&offset="+[offset]

I have the 4 folder iDs and I put them in as text input. Then the offset will need to iterate by 100 until say 19000 records are put in a spreadsheet. 

Then move to the next folderid which will have its own total number of assets to offset by 100 until reached. 

I also need the spreadsheet to append.

This is a sort of nested loop. I need macro help to accomplish this. 

Thanks in advance!

[IraWatt]

Hey @brwright,

Sounds like you need a batch macro which will loop through the 4 folder ID's. Then contained in the batch macro you will have an iterative macro which loops 100 times and has a data output tool set to append to the existing sheet.

There is some great videos on the community on batch macros here if you want to do some research on how this is made:

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Interactive-Lessons/tkb-p/interactive-lessons/label-name/Macros  

[michelle_mathews]

Hi @brwright , I'm not sure I totally understand the scenario but check out the attached. I just used a generate rows tool to create new rows for each folder id with the offset increasing by 100 until 19000 is reached.

[IraWatt]

@brwright I agree with @michelle_mathews approach although I don't think you would be able to stop once the spreadsheet reached 19000 records that way, It would only stop once all the requests were made. The macro way you could add add a check for 19000 records in the file. 

[brwright]

Thanks @michelle_mathews I was able to use the numassets value to build the rows

folderid	numassets	offset
2430295	9	0
2676471	30138	0
10067754	19364	0
8936129	14460	0

[brwright]

 I now have 638 rows of URLS I thought the download tool would read each and the workflow would update the output file 100 rows at a time. Im thinking I have to pass the URL  through a macro.  Trying to figure that part out now.

[brwright]

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